Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-14
powpxRLr REJorcEs
Because the anarchist Candidates for Chicago
City Ohaces We're Laid Out Cold.

Al u meeting OF knights OF Labor repre-
senting every districti in Pennsylvania, held
at Harrisburg, to consider the bills per-
tanning to labor now pending in the legislar
ture, the general master workman express
cd himself well pleased with the result
Of the Chicago election. A public meeting
wis held in the house oil representatives.
Mr.. Powderly presided and made a speech,
in which he asserted:
Labor had a right to be represented here
by men to look after its interests In the leg.
i~slature. He referred to the monopolistic
corpe rations being represented in legisla-
tive halls, and said it was time the
labor men OF Pennsylvania emu
lated the example Of their brethren In New
Jersey and insist upon the examination OF
all labor bills before they were passed.
1--WE are charged with being anarchists and
fayoring measures that tend TO anarchy.
As chief OF our organization can say that
anarchy finds no abiding place in our
midst; but monopolists want to make
people believe the contrary. No matter
what errors we have committed In the past,
we ave always aimed at doing right. We
have pursued n line OF policy and found out
things that are right and wrong. but We have
always kept clear OF the one thing that brings
odium on our country anarchy" He re-
joiced, therefore, is the defeat OF the anar-
CulsI CdilulUhJcS III SiilC}tSO. L WdS kihu "
see hat the workingmen oil that city were
good enough to throw the lie back into the
faces to those who posed as their friends
and representatives. No sooner did the
anarchist ticket 90 before the people than
its supporters said, We will carry the ticket
under the flag on whose lace not one star
g~listens, not one stripe is TO be found, and
the teaching OF such men as Powderly and
Griftiths will have nc weight with u.s. But
they found election day that anarchy was
showed under as it was never showed I'M
der before, aud | say amen TO that every
time.
A BURST or PATRIOTISM.
/ did not know but what in the deeora-
tion OF this hall o might forget to
place the American flag on the walls
Thursday, that it might be for
gotten. / brought this with me this morn.
ing, There Mr.. Powderly exhibited a flag
amid tremendous applausel, and !
brought il here so that If it were charged
that we we're not Americans, we could show
hat we were. Idon't care where l was
born; | don't care whore the rest OF you
were born; but we swear by that flag and
no other. Let them tomorrow morn
ing after these ~out.bursts OF APP
plause charge US with being any
thing but iree-born American citizens, and
these manifestations which you have given
expression to will be the r~efutation OF that
lie which will ring down the century in
condemnation OF the red flag. Now broth
ers, we are here and we win stand or fall
by the sentiments ] have given utterance to.
We are hero as Americans to watch
American legislation in the interests OF
the American people and in our Amer
lean way, and also to say that these
men Who assembled a hundred years
ago inPhiladelphia and gave out the Dec
laration OF Independence to the world we're
right when they declared that all men were
created free and equal and endowed with
certain inalienable rights, and that we
believe they told the truth and that 1t
still continues to be the truth instead OF a
living lie, rs some of these men would
nave people believe. We can do this with
out being anarchists, without being
partisans and without being tied to
the charcoal wheels OF either the old demo
cratic or republican party. IL was now an
i~mpossibility for a mechanic to earn enough
had to call in the help OF his wife and chill
dren. He wanted the barriers between a
life OF shame and a life OF virtuousindustry
greater than fifty centa a day. The chill
dren should be taken off the coal breaker
and kept at school. The public could not
exist on a red flag foundation of~ignorance,
vice and crime.
Industrial schools should be established
and hands and brains educated at the
same time. The legislature a few years
ago would not rave paid the slightest at
tention to a labor organization, but now
the Knights OF labor could defeat any an
didate, and so a word to the wise In this legis-
lation would be sufficient. The boycott re-
wrong for the man that was boycotted,
and so was the blacklisting wrong for the
man that made the blacklist. He did not